UK - Train firm apologise for "ladies and gentlemen" announcement

[cullennz]

Cool!

arthwollipot has got his special spread sheet of my posts open!

 

[arthwollipot]

Cool!

arthwollipot has got his special spread sheet of my posts open!

No, I actually went back to the original thread and searched for it. I don't keep a spreadsheet of your posts.

 

[Checkmite]

Way to disrespect those there to pick up passengers, those dropping off passengers and the people that clean the trains when everyone gets off.

The announcement isn't for them.

 

[angrysoba]

What a humourless, banal, emotionally sterile world are living in now.

Speak for yourself.

 

[Darat]

Naysayers must admit that "ladies and gentlemen" is an archaic saying, really.

About time it was replaced by something less old and mouldy.

Especially since it drops the “lords” - strange how some folk who don’t want things to change want things to change!

What is wrong with “A good morning to all our passengers”?

 

[Darat]

I've taken to saying "Hi friends!"

I like “folk” or if I want to be more formal “people”.

 

[catsmate]

In this post you:

Express lamemt over a perceived loss of status.

Minimize the experiences others have that you do not.

Complained about something that probably causes you not one iota of harm (so we know you have nothing important in your life to worry about).

I've posted it before, and I'll post it again.
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.

 

[Darat]

The usual Sydney suburban train announcements by people, i.e. the non-automated ones, go something like:

"CLICK! BZZZZZZ! The BWOWP trNNNN NN PlatfSQUEAL! goes to SQUELCH QUELCH SQUELCH is SSSSSSSHH! minutes late. CLICK BZZZZ! Two sugars ple..."

With heavy overmodulation and in a very thick subcontinental accent. They successfully don't include anybody, so I suppose we should all be offended.

I’ll have you know it has taken years to perfect a system that appears random whilst at the same time ensures any relevant information in announcements is incomprehensible.

 

[arthwollipot]

I like “folk” or if I want to be more formal “people”.

Both perfectly cromulent options.

 

[smartcooky]

Especially since it drops the “lords” - strange how some folk who don’t want things to change want things to change!

What is wrong with “A good morning to all our passengers”?

"Howdy doody everybody"

 

[catsmate]

You snipped my second sentence which said: "nobody believed they were actually 3/5ths of a person".

No, they were zero people.

[black people] are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

 

[catsmate]

I've taken to saying "Hi friends!"

A while ago I started using "Socially appropriate greeting". It's Melon's fault. Or perhaps Lemon, I get them confused.

 

[arthwollipot]

A while ago I started using "Socially appropriate greeting". It's Melon's fault. Or perhaps Lemon, I get them confused.

Yeah, me too. It was ages before I realised that they were separate characters.

 

[catsmate]

Because...

No, you know what? **** that.

You're a cishet white male and you have absolutely no right to suggest that your experiences are in any way comparable to those of a community of people who have been on the receiving end of systematic discrimination, had their identities erased, been told that they don't exist or are wrong about their experience. You comparing your experience to theirs - and using it as an argument for why you should be able to continue your discrimination and erasure - isn't just fallacious, it's a direct and deliberate insult, and you know it.

Silence helps the oppressor. I'm calling you out, cullennz.

I see we've come to the "deliberately obtuse" part of the act.

 

[catsmate]

The usual Sydney suburban train announcements by people, i.e. the non-automated ones, go something like:

"CLICK! BZZZZZZ! The BWOWP trNNNN NN PlatfSQUEAL! goes to SQUELCH QUELCH SQUELCH is SSSSSSSHH! minutes late. CLICK BZZZZ! Two sugars ple..."

With heavy overmodulation and in a very thick subcontinental accent. They successfully don't include anybody, so I suppose we should all be offended.

Or indeed any useful, relevant or interesting information.

 

[Darat]

"Howdy doody everybody"

I hate the faux-professionalism that many companies impose on their employees so I’d be fine with that.

 

[catsmate]

Yeah, me too. It was ages before I realised that they were separate characters.

Jeph is goo. Though, IIRR, Melon and Lemon have 2046 sisters.

 

[Francesca R]

LNER has been owned by the Department for Transport for three years, so this is essentially Boris Johnson making the apology.

However, it still has a train on the Edinburgh-London route named "The Flying Scotsman", how non-inclusive is that FFS?

 

[Francesca R]

This is in the UK.

The trains have been pretty punctual since hardly anyone has been travelling on them.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Seems like the real story here is that the company already had in place rules which stated that inclusive language should be used when making announcements. Company policy wasn't followed, a customer complained, the company apologised and asked for more information so they could ensure that company policy would be followed in the future.

I can't imagine how fragile you have to be in order to be offended by this turn of events, but I am reasonably certain that you have to actively be looking to be offended.